Alabama cornerback and Millbrook native Dee Milliner is expected to be drafted high in this year's NFL draft.

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Mark Edwards
Special to the Advertiser

One of the first times Dee Milliner met Nick Saban came at his high school gym.

Although pretty much the whole school knew it, Milliner didn't believe the Alabama football coach had come to Stanhope Elmore High and was hanging out in the gym.

"Everybody was saying, 'Coach Saban's in the gym.' Something like that," Milliner said. "I was like, 'Nobody told me,' so I thought he wasn't there. When I got ready to come in there, he was in there, dribbling around a basketball, like he was going to play one-on-one. ...